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This is a technicality, but isn't it the case that if the deterministic algorithm required takes up as much space at the mathematical object itself, the object

• jessaustin 11y ago
  That is one sense of the concept "random", but the primes are trivially disqualified from that (please forgive my coffeescript): $ wc -c primes.coffee 110 primes.coffee $ cat primes.coffee ps=[n=2] until ps.join(',').length>110 n++ ps.push n unless ps.some (p)->not(n%p) console.log ps.join ',' $ coffee primes.coffee | wc -c 115 $ coffee primes.coffee 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83,89,97,101,103,107,109,113,127,131,137,139,149,151